Orange Flavoured Rice Recipe
Indian pulao flavoured with fresh homemade juice and some regular whole spices from the pantry is something you will be keen to cherish any day any time.
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 1 cup Rice
- 2 cup Fresh Orange Juice
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 2 cloves
- 1 black cardamom
- 2 green cardamoms
- 1 inch cinnamon stick
- 1 onion (thinly sliced)
- 2 green cardamoms
- 2 dry red chilies
- 2 green chilies (chopped)
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp orange zest
- Salt as per taste
- 2 tbsp oil
Instructions
- Firstly wash rice and soak them for 30 minutes.
- Take oil in pressure cooker.
- Add cumin seeds, bay leaf, ginger garlic paste, cloves, black cardamom, green cardamoms, cinnamon stick, dry red chilies and green chilies. Saute.
- Add onion and cook it till onion turns translucent and pink.
- Then add coriander powder, garam masala and turmeric powder. Mix.
- Drain water from rice and add rice to pressure cooker.
- Add orange juice, orange zest and salt.
- Put a lid on pressure cooker and cook for 2 whistles.
- Orange Juice rice are ready. Enjoy hot.
Notes
- Add freshly homemade orange Juice and not the store bought from tetra pack because it is having a sugar.
- If you don't have exactly 2 cups of orange Juice, no issues. You can mix some portion of water into juice to make it 2. Like if you have 1.5 cup juice, then add 1/2 cup water or if have 1.25 cup juice, then add 3/4 cup water.
- Instead of orange juice, you can use kennu juice also, but that will make the pulao more tangy.
- You may add some veggies also like green peas, potatoes or anything you like.
- In case you don't have pressure cooker, you can make the same rice in pan with a lid, but it may take little longer to cook.